Anti dementors are going to hit the shops. Who wants to come?

[Shodan]

This'll be thread number 13, I think.

Let's hope it's a lucky one

(Sorry about the feeble title)

licky that's brought me unexpected happiness. Don't know why. I hate bras. Just sounds so... normal, normal. I am getting so excited at the prospect of DC clothes shopping. I fantasize about little t-shirts and shorts! I don't know where all their cloths have gone...

*clothes not cloths. Just laughing at the thought of them meandering around in loin cloths.

Article on the BBC today about what a ‘day out’ will look like now, and it all sounds so fucking miserable.
Feel like I want to go to sleep and wake up in 6 months or so!

Some old fella has just wandered over to me in the queue wearing a mask and said, 'I promise I'm giving you my very best smile.'

FFS, the BBC should be ashamed of itself.

Thanks for the welcome. I don't know why the Opera House should have got to me so badly - I've been incandescent with rage over the total failure to prioritise education and the way DD has been failed by her school, but that hasn't made me cry. I do know sorrow about London theatre and classical music is the most first world of problems!

God, I wish the BBC would stop writing half-arsed stories about things like 'what days out will look like now' and devote their time to writing well researched, helpful pieces. But first, I really want them to send someone to remove that AWFUL bollocks about coronavirus being worse than the Blitz. pisses me off every single day while I'm scrolling past to find the 'look up' tool so I can torment myself about how there are no cases in my area again.

I’ve just written to my MP about the shoddy treatment of children during lockdown. I know her pretty well and she is sensible so hopefully I’ll get a useful reply.

Sorry, that should be no NEW cases. There have been a few along the way.

Totally agree about the BBC news. Gone to shite a while ago but between the Covid coverage and the refusal to fairly cover the women's/trans rights issue I've lost all faith in them. The Times seems to be going from strength to strength. I don't even mind the DM too much, they at least aren't pretending to be an unbiased news source. Will give Sky News a go - I find myself opening the BBC news app out of habit but then closing it almost instantly because it's managed to piss me off in about three seconds.

I had a good wallow last night (and cried a fair bit talking to my dad) but am feeling ok today.

This psychosis thing is really worrying though, especially the bit about these cases being people with no history of mental illness. It seems a frighteningly quick decline.

Financial Times were shocking in the early days. There was that one journalist who was posting graphs on Twitter. I followed it avidly, trusting him and FT. Then I raised he was changing the values on the X and Y axes without making any mention of it, all to make sure the graphs showed the worst possible outcome from the figures. If I hadn't noticed the change in the axes, and just compared the line graphs, like for like, I'd have been convinced the end of the works was nigh.
And as soon as things started to improve, he started a new graph chucking in other countries, all to make sure the red line creeping up forever more would keep the readers terrified and shtum

End of the world, not works

FFS, remember to preview, Nanny!

I do know sorrow about London theatre and classical music is the most first world of problems!

It’s not really. Thousands of people’s livelihoods are at risk with the theatres shut. Very few people who work in the arts are wealthy, 5hey chose their career because they’re passionate about it and for many it’s so much more than just a job. It goes all through the sector, DH works for a company which manufacturers equipment to the entertainment industry, because they’re a large global commercial and they deal with everything from theme parks to TV studios they are hanging on, other companies aren’t so lucky. A friend of DH’s runs a company hiring out lighting, sound and staging for events, normally this time of year he’d be busy with festivals and so on, this year nothing, no income at all.

I’ve just treated my trigeminal neuralgia with homeopathy, herbs, colloidal silver
The pain was so bad it was waking me in the night as I was clenching my jaw
The pain ran from my upper left molar to my left eye, left ear and down the left side of the neck
I’ve got it down to a bearable 0.25

I had an appointment with my medical Dowser yesterday and he said his pain had him throwing up..😱

Even eating on the right side didn’t help much as the whole jaw moving set it off.

Thanks to him, I knew I had strep viridians in mine, so was treated with homeopathy accordingly. I already have gel caps so I made them with citricidal, oil or oregano, . I rubbed goldenseal tincture on my gums , tastes foul but clove oil didn’t touch it.
I brew my own colloidal silver and was rinsing it with that.
I also took homeopathy for trigeminal nerve pain
Everyone poo poos it on mumsnet.
I just tell people what I use and if I use homeopathy, I always add well we all know it doesn’t work and leave it at that

It’s got me out of some sticky situations home and abroad , where I’ve wondered if a visit to the docs was needed but homeopathy has headed off whatever was brewing off at the pass.

I always say to people with homeopathy you can always do something while you are dithering about doing nothing, wondering if you need to see a doctor.

I going to need my skills more than ever with the ‘ new normal’

No, I agree, it's really not. The arts are a source of so many jobs. They bring in masses of tourism money. I am a firm believer the arts are crucial for a healthy happy society. At the extreme end look at something like Strictly Come Dancing - it's just a bunch of people dancing, except that not only does the show make millions across the world because it's been sold just about everywhere, it also spreads a lot of joy and it has encouraged many thousands here to dance which in turn helps keep people healthy, reducing the burden on the health system. It's had a massive impact.

Most theatres have educational outreach programmes which enrich lives, and watching good theatre prompts lots to study drama or dance (again in huge numbers) and thus the good trickles down into all of society in so many ways. I don't want to live in a world where there is no theatre and I don't even go very often!

@NannyPhlegm

Financial Times were shocking in the early days. There was that one journalist who was posting graphs on Twitter. I followed it avidly, trusting him and FT. Then I raised he was changing the values on the X and Y axes without making any mention of it, all to make sure the graphs showed the worst possible outcome from the figures. If I hadn't noticed the change in the axes, and just compared the line graphs, like for like, I'd have been convinced the end of the works was nigh. And as soon as things started to improve, he started a new graph chucking in other countries, all to make sure the red line creeping up forever more would keep the readers terrified and shtum

John Murdoch?

I still thought his graphs were one of the best sources of data?

Have I been wrong all this time?

@AnxiousElephant77 We went into town last week and I thought the massive queue was for b&m. It was actually for Natwest who are doing the same. Only 1 person in at a time, visors etc. It seemed slightly insane.

@SummerHouse Before this I went swimming twice a week and I actually felt quite fit. Now the most we can do is an hour walk because DS is 5 and has 'little legs'. I can't wait to do a proper long distance walk.

Agree with the comments about the bbc. They could put a negative spin on anything.

Sorry that epistle was for viral membrane

Yes John Murdoch!
It was excellent, yes. But I got extremely annoyed at the changing of the value of the axes without making it clear. I don't blame him for it. I think Twitter possibly wasn't the best place for it, as there isn't enough space for nuance. I possibly got more annoyed than necessary because his graphs were hijacked by dementors on my timeline, and I tired of arguing the toss with them.

@SummerHouse that's funny

Had a weep this morning. It's my youngest's birthday, there are so many things we should be doing - not least we should be on a beach right now DD's work are consulting about redundancies, this should be a happy time for her & it's shit. I miss my family so much. DH's family have been behaving awfully since mid February and it is causing so much conflict. I miss my friends & I'm sad that this has made us incompatible, I can't do groupthink required atm. I'm fed up of trying to explain inexplicable things to my children. I don't know if I'm every going to drag ds1 back to where he was before this - he'd be perfectly to content to never leave his room or speak to anyone.

One newspaper (always The Guardian or Daily Mail ) as gospel is scary ... once you start reading several it's glaring how stories are ignored/spun to fit the agenda (on all sides).

@TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair and @Barkandcheese, I know the arts are serious employers. But I wasn’t crying over the job losses or the lack of future opportunities, I was crying for myself and the London life I had and loved. I chose to live here for the arts and culture (and great restaurants), and we prioritised that over a bigger house and more space. And it’s all just disappeared overnight, I might just as well be living in Wolverhampton (no offence to Wolverhampton!).

I’m also livid about the misuse of statistics in the media, I have to produce graphs for work from time to time and I’d be sacked if I produced some of the rubbish in the media.

I'm liking the Times, I will give you a tip os anyone is interested, first of all it is free for their online subscription for the first few weeks (6 or 8?) and then if you ring them to cancel, they really want to keep you and will chat in and finally give you more months (8) for £1. (in total) I have done this twice now. So months and months for all of £2

I have had a look at the Telegraph and Guardian but did not like either of them as much both just seem kind of angry and less funny. I have read the Economist in the past and liked that, shame to hear it is not being great on the lockdown issue.

Checking in for the day. Deeply deeply pissed off today - have just given myself a rage-haircut, this being the least worst option for what I might otherwise do with the scissors. (It doesn't look too bad actually.)

Junior Mole was being a cowbag this morning. Is bored with boring school already, his trousers (that fitted yesterday) don't fit, his shoes (that fitted yesterday) are too small, he doesn't like boring indoor break times. Meh. Then he decided he was going to watch DangerMouse whilst getting changed into his other trousers (which are the same as the ones that are too small but what?) and then stopped mid-dressing to bugger about with his cartoon, and then started getting the hump when he was told to GET ON WITH IT. Reader, I told him to sort his attitude out and that he was not welcome in this house if that was what he thought was acceptable behaviour.
He cried all the way to school, apparently. DH has not forgiven me and has not actually spoken to me for three hours. Very likely Junior Mole will have told everybody at school that mean mummy threw him out of the house this morning and he doesn't have a home to go to any more. (Junior Mole is a better actor than Al fricking Pacino.)

Am seriously considering whether to tell the lot of them that I'm going to do my daily working-from-mother's two hours this afternoon, then get on a bus and keep going.
I mean, I'd have a two-hour start before they came looking for me....

Solidarity, Cattermole xxx

Cattermole I had that same urge to disappear this morning. Came downstairs to DH in a foul mood because he apparently couldn’t sleep last night (he was fucking snoring every time I woke up).
DD1 was whimpering at me that a cut on her finger hurts. DD2 is constipated and hasn’t been for 4 days so had the usual battle to try and get her to sit on the toilet and try to shit before school. DS whinging as he has 4 molars coming through at the same time.
Then had a stroppy email from the IL’s as we haven’t yet rebooked flights to go out to see them.
I’m just so fed up of misery. Everyone is so bloody miserable and negative. No fun left anywhere. I want to get in the car and just drive away.

I agree about the arts - it's terribly sad. I live in the depths of Cornwall, but it's actually culturally quite active. Lots of choirs, music groups, folk groups, small theatres.

Life has been reduced so much. "Be satisfied with your walks. At least you're SAFE." Fuck off